ggouveia,
I don't use a flight battery. I hooked up a UBEC (from Hobby-Lobby). It connects to the battery leads of the ESC, reduce the voltage down to 5V and then plugs into the Rx. When doing this you need to disable the BEC from the ESC by removing the red wire from the connector. I just fold my red wire over itself and secure with heat shrink. This way I can always hook it back up if needed. My UBEC is rated for 3-5 amps which is more than enough for the servos.

Feathermerchant,
I don't doubt the newer single conversion Rxs are better. After many problems with 'older' ones I've pretty much sworn myself away from them (well, I do have 3 JR/Expert ones that I use). Of course I still get glitches at times with my dual conversions, but I expect it'll happen as long as I keep using the 72Mhz. Hopefully my Evo will be upgradable to 2.4G one day as the technology improves and is proven for larger/longer range type aircraft.

I had issues today at a fun fly where all of my models, except one, were getting glitches on my frequency. I even tried someone else's transmitter to ensure it wasn't my EVO. My models have different brands of Rx's in them, all good quality. The only model I could fly was my Corona heli, which has the old Berg 6-channel in it..
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Hope your antenna isn't inside the fuselage - the carbon would mask the radio signal..
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We have a guy at our field just bought one of these which glitches like mad. The aerial exits out of the top of the fuselage just behind the wing and is attached to front edge of the stab.

It got so bad he swapped the entire flightpack/motor/controller from another glider and it still glitches. From memory it is currently 3s lipo Castle creations 60A controller and a Tornado inrunner brushless (not sure of exact model no.) and Futaba dual conversion ppm rx.

Now the thing is if we hold the aerial at right angles away from the body there is no glitching, as soon as it lays near it there is.

His supplier told him it was due to static build up - of which I am not convinced.

I've not had a similar problem with my Siren. I've heard of static build-up on heli's with belt driven tail rotors. Grounding the boom to the negative side of the battery was supposed to eliminate the problem. I guess you could do the same with the Siren.

My Berg 5 (1st Gen) also glitches. The prop spins up and acts like a brake until signal is regained. It was really annoying so I switched to an early Gen FMA Quantum and then the glitches became fewer. Most flights had none unless I pointed the ant at the plane.

I am using an early CC P35, pre link ESC on a geared Mega 1615 7.

My receiver is in the same spot. I tried twisting the ESC to RX leads to reduce RF impacts but it hasn't worked nearly as well as changing to the dual conv Rxs.

Thanks .. good review .. I have a 3S LIPO and a Permax 400BL that I am looking for a home for. I want to put it in a smaller a hotliner-type model and thought this may be a good fit but I am thinking that it is nowhere near enough power.

Thanks .. good review .. I have a 3S LIPO and a Permax 400BL that I am looking for a home for. I want to put it in a smaller a hotliner-type model and thought this may be a good fit but I am thinking that it is nowhere near enough power.

Is that with the gearbox? If so, then you will have a nice flying plane. Otherwise, put it on a flying wing. 250 watts is plenty. I was going to use the 480BL 6g 4.4:1 and the only reason I didn't is because it was easier to mount the AXI 2826/x .